The owner of a Tesla car is seeking class action status to represent the largest group of victims in his lawsuit against the electric car maker, which he accuses of letting its employees hack video recordings captured by the car’s camera system, some of them intimate and embarrassing, just for the sake of “vulgar entertainment”. , According to Agence France-Presse”.
Henry Yeh of San Francisco filed the lawsuit in federal court on Friday, following a Reuters report that former Tesla employees said videos or photos of people’s cars had been hacked.
The lawsuit alleged that Tesla employees “disseminated video recordings of Tesla customers in private and embarrassing situations without their consent” thanks to an advanced camera system built into the cars.
Examples included in the lawsuit papers include a video of a naked man walking towards a Tesla and fights between Tesla owners while driving with drivers of other cars.
The lawsuit also states that a video showing a Tesla car hitting a child on a bicycle quickly spread throughout the automaker’s Silicon Valley office.
She added that Tesla employees shared pictures of pets for the owners of the electric car, and turned some of them into jokes with comments, before sharing them in chat groups.
The suit alleged that cameras in Tesla cars captured “very private video and images” that were used by Tesla employees for “vulgar and painful entertainment”.
These behaviors date back to at least 2019, according to the lawsuit, which asked the court to stop this “unfair behavior” and pay unspecified compensation.
The lawsuit accuses Tesla of negligence, fraud and invasion of privacy.
The company did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment, according to the agency.
